Hey, everybody. Welcome to Trashy Divorce's. Everybody's favorite. Good podcast about bad relationships. I'm Alicia.

My name is Stacy. Thank you so much for joining us today. I think I think we're gonna have a little fun with this one.

Yeah, this week's Stacy in your tale of Marital Misadventure. You have a real smooth operator. A self-appointed egot.

Sure. Yes. Inspired by Dion Warwick's dating history. We are taking a look at Philip Michael Thomas.

One-time co-star on Miami Vice, playing Ricardo Tubbs. Opposite Don Johnson. Oh, the 80s hero to Nick Cannon as well.

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Stacy this week. Rico Tubbs has 16 kids. Nick Cannon better need to watch out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nick Cannon has worked to do if he's going to catch up to 80 super legend.

Philip Michael Thomas.

Alicia, when we left off at the close of season 16, I shared some recollections from Dion Warwick's memoir, including that one time she dated the actor Philip Michael Thomas, who played Ricardo Tubbs on the 1980s television sensation Miami vice.

Not that one. Not that one. So close. You of course covered his co star, Don Johnson, who played Detective Sonny Crockett on the show on an earlier episode quite a while back, you know, covered.

So it only seems fair to give all PMT his due here on Trashy Divorce's because he's had one or two were not sure. Wow. It's a mystery. It's

I suppose I should begin by stating that this is sort of a convoluted tale because Philip Michael Thomas is himself a bit of an unreliable narrator.

Oh, goodie. My favorite, yes, my favorite kind of narrator as well. And he's made statements in the press that may or may not be true. He's probably the father of 16 children, including five with the wife that Wikipedia tells us he was married to from 1986 to 1998.

A minor hitch, however, in 1985 for a people magazine piece that was ultimately titled the ego has landed. No profile. Philip Michael Thomas written by Carol Wallace, the then 36 year old PMT said that he'd been married before or possibly was still married at the time.

There is a reference to his wife's daughter. And that by that time he had five biological children with four mothers plus another three kids to whom he was the unofficial dad. So I honestly don't know how to quantify the familial life or the sheer quantity of offspring official or not.

So he has a maybe wife and eight kids before he gets married to the wife that he claims. Yes, I believe that's the long and short of it.

Yes. So the sheer quantity of offspring official or not that think of PMT as their pops.

The very same article, the one where he talks about his wife, present tense also talks about the woman he had most recently broken up with just months earlier, like two months earlier.

And a personal assistant type figure who may or may not have been his on again off again girlfriend for the previous like nine years, spoiler, she was his something for some years. This, at least said this.

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